Stuck in traffic on the way home after all these gloomy thoughts about the dim gloom that so many want to cast upon the state of American Judaism, I like how these pictures came out what with the hill of green and bits of red and blue. Listened to a lot of Americana –John Adams’s “Chamber Symphony” and “Grand Pinola Music,” an interview on the radio with Valerie June and songs from her new album “Pushin’ Against A Stone,” and then, a nice surprise, a little Johnny Cash from Folsom Prison. There has got to be a better way to think about American Judaism than the simplistic binary “with religion” and “without religion.”